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The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on behalf of the Unified Shared Services Management organization about new systems that can help modernize the delivery of the federal payroll. GSA said Friday USSM and the Office of Personnel Management seek industry partners that can provide information on payroll delivery systems in support of the government’s ongoing ePayroll […] More

A U.S. Marine Corps official has said he believes the service branch’s future vertical lift program should operate as an optionally piloted helicopter designed to perform some missions, Flight Global reported Friday. “Especially for a high reliability airplane, we view that airplane as a manned platform,” Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, told […] More

The U.S. Navy has selected five small businesses to provide remedial action services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility under a potential five-year, $40 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday Cape Environmental Management, EATC JV, Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Insight-ESI and CKY will compete for task orders to perform remedial and removal actions, soil excavation and closure or replacement of underground or […] More

Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Dassault Aviation, Eurofighter and Saab Group have separately responded to Canada’s call for information on potential new fighter aircraft to replace the country’s aging CF-18 fleet, the Toronto Star reported Saturday. Bruce Campion-Smith writes Friday was the deadline for submission to a questionnaire about the costs and technologies of the respondents’ aircraft offerings. “Government officials are now […] More

Lockheed Martin has turned over Australia’s final MH-60R “Romeo” Seahawk multimission helicopter to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held Wednesday at a company facility in Owego, New York. The company built a total of 24 Seahawks for the Australian navy under the foreign military sales program to replace the service branch’s fleet of S-70B-2 helicopters, Lockheed said Thursday. “From aircraft […] More

United Launch Alliance has launched a national security payload into space Thursday as part of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-61 mission. The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday it launched the NROL-61 payload aboard the company-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V EELV 421 configuration was built to […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton has been designated as a member corporate organization of the International Consortium for Agile, a global agile certification and accreditation body. Under the partnership, Booz Allen will support ICAgile’s learning roadmap and training providers as they administer ICAgile-accredited courses, Booz Allen said Thursday. Booz Allen intends for the partnership to apply agility […] More

Alvarez & Associates has adopted a new name and changed its logo in a move to rebrand the company to reflect the changing landscape of the government marketplace. The company is now known as Alvarez LLC and has launched a new website that shows the new logo as part of the change, Alvarez said Wednesday. “We’re […] More

Saab has received a $5.4 million order from the Defense Department to supply a company-built man-portable weapon system to U.S. military agencies. The defense and security company said Thursday the order for Saab’s Carl-Gustaf was issued under a previously awarded DoD contract for 84-millimeter recoilless rifle systems. Michael Andersson, president and CEO of Saab’s North American business, said Carl-Gustaf features […] More

Lockheed Martin has installed a company-built vehicle optical sensor system on the U.S. Navy‘s USNS Grapple rescue and salvage ship to support NATO‘s patrol operations in the Aegean Sea. The company and the military branch chose a first-generation Gyrocam VOSS from the U.S. government’s inventory and completed system installation over a two-week period, Lockheed said Wednesday. “To support NATO’s security mission quickly, the U.S. Navy needed […] More

Jim Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs at NASA’s space technology mission directorate, has said SpaceX proposed to invest 10 times the funds NASA plans to allocate for an uncrewed Mars landing mission, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes Reuter said at a NASA Advisory Council meeting in Cleveland that the agency could spend $32 million on […] More

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have developed a remote-controlled system that works to provide reconnaissance data in order to help law enforcement officials and first responders evaluate railway incidents. Johns Hopkins APL’s Instrumented Rail Inspection System has near and visible infrared cameras and a set of sensors designed to detect chemicals and […] More